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Kalma Airport

Kalma Airport, formally Wonsan Kalma International Airport, is a dual-use civilian and military airport east of Wonsan, North Korea, which opened in 2015 and mainly hosts air force drills and air shows.

Kalmar Nyckel

Kalmar Nyckel ("Key of Kalmar"; Dutch: Kalmar Sleutel) was a Dutch-built Swedish ship that in 1638 carried settlers founding New Sweden at Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware.

Kalpana Chawla (कल्पना चावला)

Kalpana Chawla (कल्पना चावला) was an Indian-born American engineer and NASA astronaut, the first woman of Indian origin in space, who died in the 2003 Columbia accident.

Kaltag, Alaska

Kaltag, Alaska, is a small Koyukon Athabascan city on the west bank of the Yukon River, 75 miles west of Galena, with a 2020 population of 158.

Kaltasy-Samara Oil Pipeline

The Kaltasy-Samara Oil Pipeline, also known as Kaltasy-Kuibyshev, is a Transneft trunk crude oil pipeline carrying crude from Tatarstan to the Samara hub on the Volga River.

Kaltura, Inc.

Kaltura, Inc. is an American software company offering a cloud-based video platform for enterprises, educational institutions, and media companies. Founded in 2006, it listed on Nasdaq in July 2021.

Kalundborg Symbiosis

The Kalundborg Symbiosis is a partnership of public and private companies in Kalundborg, Denmark, that exchanges water, energy, and residual materials so one company's waste becomes another's resource, operating since 1972.

Kam people

The Kam people, also known as the Dong people (Dòngzú) or Gaeml, are a Tai-Kadai-speaking minority of southern China living mainly in eastern Guizhou, Hunan, and Guangxi.

Kam Yin Lau

Kam Yin Lau is a Hong Kong-born American electrical engineer at UC Berkeley whose high-speed semiconductor laser work underpins broadband access; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Kamakhya Temple

Kamakhya Temple, also known as Kamgiri, is a Hindu temple on Nilachal Hill in Guwahati, Assam, dedicated to the goddess Kamakhya and rebuilt in 1565 by the Koch king Naranarayan.

Kamakhya–Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper Express

The Kamakhya–Howrah Vande Bharat Sleeper Express is an overnight semi-high-speed service linking Howrah in West Bengal with Kamakhya in Guwahati, Assam, using India's first Vande Bharat Sleeper trainsets.

Kamakshi Amman Temple (காமாட்சி)

The Kamakshi Amman Temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the goddess Kamakshi, the city's only Devi shrine and one of the fifty-one Shakti Peethas.

Kamalanga power station

Kamalanga power station is a coal-fired thermal power plant in Dhenkanal district, Odisha, India, owned by GMR Kamalanga Energy, with three 350 MW units commissioned between 2013 and 2014.

Kaman Corporation

Kaman Corporation, also known as Kaman Aircraft, is an American aerospace and defense company in Bloomfield, Connecticut, founded by Charles H. Kaman in 1945 as a helicopter maker.

Kaman K-MAX

The Kaman K-MAX (K-1200) is an American single-seat helicopter with two intermeshing rotors and no tail rotor, built for repetitive sling loads like logging and firefighting.

Kaman SH-2 Seasprite

The Kaman SH-2 Seasprite, or H-2 Seasprite, is a twin-engine ship-based helicopter built by Kaman for the United States Navy, used for anti-submarine warfare and utility missions.

Kamaz (КАМАЗ)

Kamaz (КАМАЗ, from the Kama Automobile Plant) is a Russian heavy truck and diesel engine manufacturer in Naberezhnye Chelny, founded in 1969, with over 2.25 million trucks built.

Kamaz Typhoon (КамАЗ Тайфун)

The Kamaz Typhoon (КамАЗ Тайфун) is a family of Russian armored, mine-resistant trucks built by KamAZ, with the 6x6 KamAZ-63968 Typhoon-K as its main variant.

Kamigami

Kamigami is a line of build-it-yourself, six-legged toy robots from Dash Robotics, a UC Berkeley startup that sold them with Mattel from 2017, controlled and programmed through a smartphone app.

Kammback

A Kammback, also called a Kamm tail, is a car body style with a tapering roofline cut off abruptly at the rear, named after German aerodynamicist Wunibald Kamm.

Kamorta-class corvette

The Kamorta class, also known as Project 28, is a class of four anti-submarine warfare stealth corvettes of the Indian Navy, designed in-house and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders in Kolkata, commissioned between 2014 and 2020.

Kamov

Kamov (Камов) is a Russian helicopter design bureau founded in 1948 by Nikolai Kamov and known for coaxial-rotor helicopters; since April 2020 it has been part of the National Helicopter Center Mil and Kamov.

Kamov A-7

The Kamov A-7 was a Soviet two-seat observation autogyro designed by Nikolai Kamov's team at TsAGI in the 1930s, powered by a 480 hp M-22 engine.

Kamov Ka-22 (Камов Ка-22 Винтокрыл)

The Kamov Ka-22 Vintokryl, NATO name Hoop, was a Soviet convertiplane built by Kamov that first flew in 1959 and set eight world records in 1961.

Kamov Ka-226 (Камов Ка-226)

The Kamov Ka-226 (Камов Ка-226) is a Russian twin-engined light utility helicopter with coaxial rotors and swappable mission pods; its Ka-226T variant was certified in 2015.

Kamov Ka-25

The Kamov Ka-25, NATO name "Hormone", is a Soviet shipboard anti-submarine and utility helicopter with coaxial rotors; about 460 were built between 1966 and 1975.

Kamov Ka-27

The Kamov Ka-27, known to NATO as the Helix, is a Soviet-designed shipborne naval helicopter with a coaxial rotor system that entered Soviet Navy service in 1981, chiefly flying anti-submarine warfare missions.

Kamov Ka-31

The Kamov Ka-31, NATO name Helix-B, is a Soviet and Russian airborne early warning helicopter with a rotating radar antenna under the fuselage, serving Russia, India, and China.

Kamov Ka-32

The Kamov Ka-32, NATO name Helix, is a Soviet- and Russian-designed twin-engine civil utility helicopter with two coaxial rotors and no tail rotor, first flown in 1980 and used chiefly for firefighting and heavy lifting.

Kamov Ka-50

The Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark", NATO name Hokum, is a Soviet and Russian single-seat attack helicopter known for its coaxial rotors and unique ejection seat.